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Instrumental Dances of the Medieval Period

Instrumental Dances of the Medieval Period. Music History I December 2, 2013 Michael Meier, Rachel Palmberg, Marissa Archuleta, Chelsea Blankenship, Bianca Martinez. Secular Music. Dance music was secular music Had instrumentation Meant for enjoyment

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Instrumental Dances of the Medieval Period

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  1. Instrumental Dances of the Medieval Period Music History I December 2, 2013 Michael Meier, Rachel Palmberg, Marissa Archuleta, Chelsea Blankenship, Bianca Martinez

  2. Secular Music • Dance music was secular music • Had instrumentation • Meant for enjoyment • Songs with words were not always church related Was not written down as often.

  3. Styles • Mostly monophonic • Improvised • Hard to find composers • 4 main types • Istanpita • Ductia • Nota • Estampie

  4. Istanpita • Italian • Duple Meter • Is the most chromatic of the dances • Long verses with a first and second ending. • Endings are always the same

  5. Ductia Nota • No musical examples • Only reference is in a manuscript by Johannes de Grocheio. • Much like Estampie • English • No musical example, only reference is by Grocheio • Has several verses but no different ending • Can have same verse over again with a different counterpoint

  6. Estampie • Dance in a fast triple meter that features a series of phrases, each played twice but with a different ending each time • First ending is called "open" • Second cadence ends on the final, making it "closed"

  7. La quarte estampie royal NAWM 13 • Memorized or improvised • Le manuscript du roi (The Manuscript of the King) includes 8 dance tunes identified as "royal estampies" • probably commissioned by Guillaume of Villehardoun, prince of Moria around 1250-1270

  8. Works Cited • “Ancient to Baroque.” Norton Anthology of Western Music. Ed. Peter J. Burkholder. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2010. 55-7. • Burkholder, J. Peter. “A History of Western Music.” Ed. Maribeth Payne. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2010. 82-3. • Flakkari, Ellisif. “Early Medieval Dance Music.” SCA. 1994. 27 Nov. 2013. <http://sca.uwaterloo.ca/mjc/sca/early-dance- music.html>. • “Medieval Secular Music.” The Medieval Classroom. The McAuley Medieval Fayre. 5 Sept. 2006. 27 Nov. 2013 <http://www.themedievalclassroom.com.au/>.

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